Portrait of Monsignor Antonio Cerri

Alessandro Algardi (1595/98 - 1654)

Manchester Art Gallery

1630 - 1640

Portrait bust of Monsignor Antonio Cerri, Avvocato della Camera Apostolica in Rome. The Cerri family coat of arms, represented on the plinth of the bust, was an uprooted oak tree.

• Medium: marble
• Dimensions: 86 cm
• Grant Paid: £30000 ( Total: £265000)
• ArtFunded in: 1981
• Vendor: Agnew's

Provenance

Thomas Hope, Deepdene, Dorking; by descent to Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Christie's 1917; Mrs W Burns; Walter S M Burns; Major General Sir George Burns, Christie's 1979; Agnew.

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